Mussorgsky (1839–1881); Albéniz (1860–1909)
Listening:
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
1. Promenade
2. The Gnome
3. Promenade
4. The Old Castle
5. Promenade
6. Tuileries (Children Quarreling at Play)
7. Bydlo
8. Promenade
9. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks [pic]
10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle[pic Goldenberg] [pic Schmuyle]
11. Promenade
12. Limoges—The Market
13. Catacombs (Sepulchrum romanum)[pic]
14. Con mortuis in lingua mortua
15. The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba Yaga)[pic]
16. The Great Gate at Kiev[pic]
Douglas
Albeniz, Iberia
Book 1 (1906)
Book 3 (1907)
Book 4 (1908)
de Larrocha
Reading:
Michael Russ: “Synopsis” from Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. CUP, 1992: pp. 35–49
W.A. Clark: “The Phenomenon” from Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic. OUP, 1999, pp. 16–34
Debussy (1862–1918)
Listening:
Debussy: Preludes
From Book I(1910):
Voiles
Des pas sur la neige
Minstrels
From Book II (1913):
General Lavine – eccentric
Ondine
Feux d’artifice
Estampes: (1903)
(First edition cover) | (First edition flyleaf)
Pagodes
Soiree dans Grenade
Jardins sous la pluie
Gieseking
L’Isle Joyeuse (1903–4)
[Watteau pic1] [Watteau pic2]
Haguenauer
Reading:
Ann McKinley: “Debussy and American Minstrelsy.” The Black Perspective in Music, Vol 14 No. 3 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 249-258.
Paul Roberts: “Three Japanese Prints: Estampes.” from “Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy”, Amadeus Press, Portland ,Oregan, 1996.
Supplemental (Optional) reading on Minstrels/General Lavine:
James Deaville. “Debussy’s Cakewalk. Race, Modernism and Music in Early Twentieth-Century Paris.” Revue musicale OICRM 2, no. 1 (2014): 20-39.
Supplemental material to Kautsky, Catherine. Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. See Supplementary material for “Chapter II: Clowns, Poets, and Circus Daredevils, and search for “Lavine”, to find an interesting article from the San Francisco Chronicle from the mid-20th century which gives a great history of the “General”.
David Cartledge 
